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Google: Too Big and Out-of-Control

Coaching Tip

Through the period of March of 2002 to March of 2011, my small executive coaching company, Signature, Inc., Concurrently, online advertising competition has increased with Microsoft/Yahoo and others digging into Google's search engine advertising market share through providing better value to online advertisers.

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The 787's Problems Run Deeper Than Outsourcing

Harvard Business Review

While the first 787 was originally scheduled to be delivered back in 2008, a string of delays and cost overruns meant that deliveries didn't start until 2011. Boeing undertook one of the most extensive outsourcing campaigns that it has ever attempted in its history. It's easy to blame the outsourcing. At least not yet.

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How Big Companies Beat Local Competition in Emerging Markets

Harvard Business Review

For example, In August 2011, consumers in Mexico's fifth largest urban area, Toluca, were offered a new product, PureIt , a home water purifier that enabled them to not have to lug 40-pound garrafones (bottles) of drinking water to their homes from the grocery store.

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How to Transform a Traditional Giant into a Digital One

Harvard Business Review

In 2011 GE, the company famous for exporting great leaders, imported one when it recruited Bill Ruh from Cisco to lead GE’s push into software and analytics. Three years later, GE hired veteran software engineer Ganesh Bell to be chief digital officer of GE Power and Water. Rather, it involves many steps that are interconnected.

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Make Your Knowledge Workers More Productive

Harvard Business Review

When we interviewed 45 such people across 39 companies in 8 industries in the United States and Europe, we found that by identifying low-value tasks to either drop completely, delegate to someone else or outsource, the average worker gained back roughly one day a week they could use for more important tasks. (We

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Looking for Jobs in All the Wrong Places: Memo to the President

Harvard Business Review

Here, too, start-ups are the driving engine of our nation's global innovation leadership. Indeed, as one commentator put it, the guest list at this summit meeting represented "a who's who of outsourcing American jobs.". But Fortune 100 CEOs are exactly the wrong people to talk to about jobs. Big Business is not a major job creator.

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The Big Picture of Business: Been There, Done That

Strategy Driven

With a wealth of expertise available via outsourcing, one can quickly become a ‘kid in a candy shop,’ wanting whatever is readily available or craftily packaged. Marketers might contend that the latest advertising campaign is equivalent to re-engineering the client company (though the two concepts are light years apart).